ISBN10: 0807130648, ISBN13: 9780807130643, [publisher: Louisiana State University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and social perspective. A cab ride turns into an amazing encounter with the driver, an amateur physicist whose ideas about space and time travel spark the poet's musings on chutzpah and artistic ambition. A trip to Triolet, a Creole village in the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius, leads the poet to ponder the past and present as she reflects on the ironic complexities of the slave trade and its legacy shared by so many peoples. And in 'The Cachoeira Tales,' longing to take her family on a journey to 'some place sanctified by the Negro soul,' the poet finds herself in Brazil's Bahia, along with a theater director, a jazz musician, a retired commercial pilot, an activist, a university student, and two mysterious African American women whom they meet along the way. In rhymed couplets, each pilgrim tells a story, and the result is a rollicking, sensual exploration of spirit and community, with a nod to Chaucer and to traditional Trickster tales.Using her remarkable ability to educate and inspire, Marilyn Nelson demonstrates the power of travel to transform our imaginations. We have long known that travel broadens; in these ...
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Louisiana State Univ Pr, Date: 2005-06-30. Paperback. Used:Good. 2005. Louisiana State Univ Pr ISBN 0807130648 9780807130643 [US]

ISBN10: 0807130648, ISBN13: 9780807130643, [publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr] Softcover 54 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]